Elderly Woman Attacked After Interrupting Church Robbery

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A man’s been charged after an elderly woman was attacked with a crowbar in Portadown in County Armagh.

The woman – who’s in her 70s – caught a man trying to force open a church donation box on Friday afternoon.

It’s understood the man also demanded money from the woman , at first, the lady refused to hand over her purse , but when the man struck her with the crowbar, she gave him a sum of cash.

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The woman was left shaken and bruised after the attack which is believed to have happened at a church in the William Street area